The Senate Budget Committee unveiled the chairman's mark for its version of the FY 2014 budget earlier this week (See WPI 12 March). The committee adopted that plan by a party-line vote of 12-10 on Thursday night after two days of debate with no amendments. This is the first budget reported out of the Senate Budget Committee in four years. On the House side, the chairman's mark similarly was passed by a party-line vote of 22-17 after 22 of 23 amendments were defeated.Ranking Minority Member Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) noted that savings are reduced from $1.85 trillion to $700 million and also includes a $1.5 trillion increase in revenues. That difference comes from the contention that the Senate budget "turned off" the sequester. However, a...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.